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Vibrant Campus: Spring Semester Highlighted by an Abundance of On-Campus Events

January 14, 2008

With classes set to resume next week, students will have ample opportunity to
take advantage of the many campus events and activities, including theatre productions, concerts, Division I athletics, films and lectures. The fun starts immediately when the men's basketball team takes on America East rival Maine at 7:30 p.m. on January 23 at SEFCU Arena.
 
Some other highlights coming in 2008 include:

Feb. 2







Feb. 7
Big Purple Growl and Ferocious Feast
11th Annual Big Purple Growl and
Ferocious Feast
5-7 p.m.
Featuring a pre-game party and feast and
men's and women's basketball games
against Stony Brook. The women play at
4:30 p.m.; the men at 7 p.m. in UAlbany's SEFCU Arena.

Martin Luther King Jr. Black History Month Luncheon, 12 p.m. Campus Center Ballroom
Featuring civil rights activist and writer Myrlie Evers-Williams, widow of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
Feb. 8 Plays in Process
7:30 p.m., Performing Arts Center
Readings of new works to nurture and encourage student playwrights
Feb. 26


March 5






March 11
Jordan Levine
The men's lacrosse team takes on Siena Feb. 26 at John Fallon Field.
Men's Lacrosse vs. Siena
2 p.m. at John Fallon Field

Dangerous Music Project - Clogs
7 p.m., Performing Arts Center
This Aussie-American alt-classical quartet, which
composes and improvises using sounds, textures
and influences from across the musical spectrum, presents a demonstration.

Visiting Writers Series Seminar & Reading
4:15 p.m. Seminar
8 p.m. Reading
Poet Marie Howe's newest collection is
The Kingdom of Ordinary Time
(2008); Prize-winning
poet Campbell McGrath's latest poetry collection is
Seven Notebooks
(2008).
March 13









March 21


April 3
Gergory Maguire
Visiting Writers Series author Gregory Maguire visits
March 13.
Visiting Writers Series
7 p.m., Performing Arts Center
Reading/talk by the much acclaimed, Albany-born Gregory Maguire, revisionist fairy tale writer and UAlbany graduate, who is best-known for Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (1995), which was adapted as a Broadway musical in 2003.

Men's Lacrosse vs. Princeton
1 p.m., John Fallon Field

Capital Trio
7:30 p.m., Performing Arts Center Pianist
Duncan Cumming, violinist Hilary Cumming
and cellist Solen Dikener comprise this new
chamber ensemble in residence at UAlbany.
April 5-6 Relay for Life
3:00 p.m., Collins Circle
Join the Students of Albany Against Cancer in an overnight benefit for the American Cancer Society including multiple activities/events.
April 18 Japanese Student Association Japan Night
6:30-9:30 p.m., Campus Center Ballroom
Japanese tradition and culture with dancing, singing, food and activities.
April 27




May 2-18








May 17
Fountain Day
Fountain Day, an annual rite of spring, is set for April 27 at the Main Fountain.
Fountain Day
Noon-4 p.m., Main Fountain
Share the spirit as the fountain is turned on for the first time in 2008.

Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition
10 a.m.-5 p.m., University Art Museum
The Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition
features work produced by candidates for the University at Albany Art Department's
three-year, 60-credit-hour program of intensive training and study in traditional and contemporary fine arts practices.

Graduate Commencement
9-11 a.m., SEFCU Arena
May 18 Undergraduate Commencement
10-11 a.m., Science Library Lawn University-wide degree-granting ceremony for those receiving bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees and certificates of advanced study.

 

Related Links:
UAlbany Events Calendar
Big Purple Growl and Ferocious Feast
Performing Arts Center
Great Danes Athletics
New York State Writers Institute
University Art Museum
Student Involvement & Leadership

 


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